Franz Ferdinand

(noun)

Franz Ferdinand (December 18, 1863 – June 28, 1914) was an Archduke and, from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo by Serb nationalists precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy) and the Allies (Serbia, Russia, France and Britain) to take sides against each other in what became World War I.

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Examples of Franz Ferdinand in the following topics:

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • The European Crisis

    • In the summer of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was on a trip to the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia, the region of the empire bordering Serbia.
    • Ferdinand’s killing sparked a month of diplomatic maneuvering among Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, and Britain called the "July Crisis."
    • The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a series of war declarations across Europe, ultimately leading to World War I.

  • Der Blaue Reiter

    • The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter .
    • Franz Marc and August Macke were killed in combat.
    • German painter Franz Marc was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter.

  • Bohemian Period

    • Without heirs, Emperor Matthias sought to assure an orderly transition during his lifetime by having his dynastic heir (the fiercely Catholic Ferdinand of Styria, later Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor) elected to the separate royal thrones of Bohemia and Hungary.
    • Ferdinand was a proponent of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and not well-disposed to Protestantism or Bohemian freedoms.
    • Ferdinand had wanted them to administer the government in his absence.
    • After the death of Matthias in 1619, Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor.
    • At the same time, the Bohemian estates deposed Ferdinand as King of Bohemia (Ferdinand remained Emperor, since the titles are separate) and replaced him with Frederick V, Elector Palatine, a leading Calvinist and son-in-law of the Protestant James VI and I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland.

  • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

    • In Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887), Ferdinand Tönnies set out to develop concepts that could be used as analytic tools for understanding why and how the social world is organized.
    • In Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887), Ferdinand Tönnies set out to develop the concepts Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft that could be used as analytic tools for understanding why and how the social world is organized.

  • Danish Intervention

    • After the Bohemian Revolt was suppressed by Ferdinand II, the Danish King Christian IV, fearing that recent Catholic successes threatened his sovereignty as a Protestant nation, led troops against Ferdinand.
    • Frederick was forced to sign an armistice with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, thus ending the 'Palatine Phase' of the Thirty Years' War.
    • To fight Christian, Ferdinand II employed the military help of Albrecht von Wallenstein, a Bohemian nobleman who had made himself rich from the confiscated estates of his Protestant countrymen.
    • Wallenstein pledged his army, which numbered between 30,000 and 100,000 soldiers, to Ferdinand II in return for the right to plunder the captured territories.
    • At this point, the Catholic League persuaded Ferdinand II to take back the Lutheran holdings that were, according to the Peace of Augsburg, rightfully the possession of the Catholic Church.

  • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

    • Introduced by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are two conceptual models for types of human association.
    • Introduced by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are two conceptual models for types of human association.

  • Religious Divide in the Holy Roman Empire

    • The war began when the newly elected Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, tried to impose religious uniformity on his domains, forcing Roman Catholicism on its peoples.
    • Ferdinand II was a devout Roman Catholic and relatively intolerant when compared to his predecessor, Rudolf II.
    • Ferdinand II, educated by the Jesuits, was a staunch Catholic who wanted to impose religious uniformity on his lands.
    • Ferdinand was upset by this calculated insult, but his intolerant policies in his own lands had left him in a weak position.
    • Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, whose aim, as a zealous Catholic, was to restore Catholicism as the only religion in the Empire and suppress Protestantism, and whose actions helped precipitate the Thirty Years' War.

  • Cultural Universals

    • Franz Boas argued that one's culture may mediate and thus limit one's perceptions in less obvious ways.
    • Among the cultural universals listed by Donald Brown, some of these were investigated by Franz Boas.

  • Germany and the United States

    • Among Piloty's more famous pupils were Hans Makart, Franz von Lenbach, Franz Defregger, Gabriel von Max, and Eduard von Grützner.